FRESNO, CA

After months of heated negotiation, Mrs. Eleanor Brandt of Fresno just sold her top margarine container to investor Elon Musk for a record $44 billion.

“He took it no questions asked,” said Mrs Brandt. ”It could be potato salad, could be cucumbers mixed with salad dressing, could be . Even I don’t know what’s in there.”

Brandt was initially reluctant to sell the container fearing what Musk might do with it. At one point she was threatening to take that “poison pill” to avoid the sale.

“My Earl was so dead set against the sale that he was willing to eat whatever was in there,“ said Brandt. “In the end, though, we thought, ‘what the heck, might as well make a little money.’”

Musk is also reportedly bidding on the contents of Mrs. Brandt’s freezer sight unseen.

“That’s a frid

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